English

Proper noun

Ostia

1. An ancient town in Italy at the mouth of the Tiber; the harbour of ancient Rome.

Anagrams

• IOTAs, iotas

English

Noun

ostia

1. plural of ostium

Italian

Etymology

From Latin hostia.

Noun

ostia f ‎(plural ostie)

1. host (communion wafer)
2. wafer
3. Mildly blasphemous expletive

Anagrams

• astio
• osati
• ostai
• staio
• tosai

Latin

Noun

ostia

1. nominative plural of ostium
2. accusative plural of ostium
3. vocative plural of ostium

References

• OSTIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ostia in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ostia in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• ostia in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Spanish

Noun

ostia f ‎(plural ostias)

1. Misspelling of hostia.